University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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26 THE 1913 REVEILLE Lieutenant Edwin Emerson Powell, Company A Baltimore, Md. Civil Engineering Sophomore Year, Treasurer Class; Junior Year, Sergeant Company A; Vice-Presi- dent Class: Assistant Editor Triangle; Chairman Refreshment Committee, Junior Prom; Senior Year, Vice-President Class; Chairman Auditing Committee; Chair- man June Ball Refreshment Committee; Photographic Editor Reveille; Winner Tennis Tournament, ' 11- ' 12; Captain Lacrosse Team ' 10- ' 11- ' 12- ' 13. Eddie ' Whenever you see a bunch gathered on the campus or in the barracks, there is one safe bet as to the cause, Eddie is cracking a bum joke. For four long years we have been forced to submit to the punishment of Ed ' s jokes. Oh, such jokes. Many and many a time has Ed left a group of his classmates gasping for breath, while he went serenely on his way, looking for additional victims. Besides being the champeen long distance joke teller of the Cadet Corps, the bearer is some singer. His voice is like the sweetness of a rusty hinge. The constant giving of the stir- ring command in honeyed tones, strap- jars and sugar bowls, is doubtless responsible for the sweetness of the aforesaid voice. If Ed would use fer- tilizer on his nightingale tones he would doubtless make a howling suc- cess in grand uproar. He has even been known to sing before the shin- ing crowned heads of College Park. While at M. A. C, this product of Baltimo has grown to be some mil- itary genius. His modesty held him down till his Junior Year, when Commy conferred on A Company the honor of Sergeant Powell. Then did Edwin Elizabeth ' s genius blaze forth in a blaze of glory. Oh ! much. The recent flood in Illinois dampened his enthusiasm considerably. I forgot to mention that she ' lives in Cairo. Yep, everybody ' s doing it, so Ed thought he might as well be in the swim. However, lead where it may, life ' s pathway will always be brightened for Eddy by the best wishes of every one of his classmates. We all feel assured that success will attend him in all his ventures.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 25 Alfred Nisbet Baltimore, Md. Chemical Senior Year, Assistant Business Manager Reveille; Treasurer, Senior Class; Chairman, Programme Committee, Rossbourg Club; Secretary and Treasurer, Chemi- cal Society. Nebby ' No, this is not our Mellin ' s Food Baby. It is a member of the Senior Class, otherwise known as Nebby. Nebby made his appearance on this planet in 1889, and has developed into some orator — his first sentence being ' , a bo-at, pa-pa; a bo-at ! He later became enthusiastic over wild animals, and as a result was able to recog nize the different kinds. He turned over to his father and said : Make an elephant mit a chizel, pa- pa ; wit a chisel. Nebby joined our ranks in the year of 1 911, and has worked hard for the interests of the class, especially in the pennant line. I wonder why? Ask A. N. IMeyer Company. Socially. Nebby is some fusser, but althoui; ' h his correspondence is very limited, his chubby little face and bright blue eyes cause hearts to flutter and doves to soar from the Avenue and alight in Georgetown. Incidentally, the magnetic attraction of one of the aforesaid doves draws Nebby to Georgetown during some of his leisure hours. Since the terrible catastrophe, Nebby ' s place of abode has been College Arms. He seems to have acquired much popularity there, for every morning the land- lady, on awakening him, replies to some of Nebby ' s fool remarks with All right, my boy. In the Military Department, Nebby with his company of busted aristocrats is surely some genius, for Captain ( ?) Nisbet is the only one who is the eye of Com- my ' s heart. Nebby has worked hard and diligently in whipping his company of done fors into shape, and can enter into competition with any of the regular companies of the battalion. We must not, however, overlook the fact that his star drillers are Sammy and Leo. and he has shown his confidence in their ability by promoting them to the rank of lootenants.

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MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 27 Lieutenant John Rowland Reichard, Company B, Horticulture Fairplay, Mel. Junior Year; Sergeant, Class Historian, Junioir Editor Triangle. Senior Year; Editor-in-Chief Reveille, President Y. M. C. A., Secretary Morrill Literary Society. Daniel. ' ' ' Come in, fellows; help ' ourself to these, and Reichard, the host, ex- tends to us his guaranteed brain food — dried prunes. Daniel Webster Reichard, the sage of the class, made his debut at M. A. C. in the fall of 1910. It was in Dr. McDonnell ' s classroom that we were first made aware of his mental ability, when he commenced his astonishing disserta- tion on Ira Remsen ' s Inorganic Chem- istr}-. He had completed two cha])- ters, and well into the third, when Doc. Mac regained his senses .and signalled him to stop. I say signalled, because Doc. was speechless. Xever before had such wisdom shown itself in the chemical classroom — aye, even in any classroom at M. A. C. Daniel ' s advent into this life was somewhere in Washington Count}- ; we have been unable to discover the exact location, because Fairplay is merely the work of some imaginative genius who had endeavored to have a spur of the Western Maryland run through his section of the country. As a babe in swaddling clothes, he would bring the wise men of the country swarming to him to receive any chance drop of wisdom which might fall from his infant lips. Soon he entered the pub- lic schools of the State, and before many years had received all available knowledge in that section of the State. To further his mental training he jour- neyed to M. A. C. Upon his arrival the Faculty saw fit to advance the standard of the school a whole year in order that Daniel could remain in our midst at least three years. Our Solomon claims that at the close of his Senior Year he will return to the farm, but we are sure such is not the case. There are too few great minds in this world to let him waste his genius in the country. As to afifairs of the heart, with but one exception, Reichard has none. That exception is the President of the National Women ' s Suffrage League of Fair- play, Maryland.